Optics av Kip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford

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<p><b>A groundbreaking textbook on twenty-first-century waves of all sorts and their applications</b><br><br>Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford¿s monumental <i>Modern Classical Physics</i> is now available in five stand-alone volumes that make ideal textbooks for individual graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on statistical physics; optics; elasticity and fluid dynamics; plasma physics; and relativity and cosmology. Each volume teaches the fundamental concepts, emphasizes modern, real-world applications, and gives students a physical and intuitive understanding of the subject.<br><br><i>Optics</i> is an essential introduction to a resurgent subject. ¿Optics¿ originally referred to the study of light, but today the field encompasses all types of waves, including electromagnetic waves, from gamma rays to radio waves; gravitational waves; waves in solids, fluids, and plasmas; and quantum waves. The past few decades have seen revolutions in optics¿amazing advances in nonlinear optics te